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sixminutestoriesblog · 2 months

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st. patrick's day

Saint Patrick's Day! Green beer, green clothes, parades and corned beef and cabbage for all! In America, we have a lot of traditions associated with St. Pat's Day and a pleasure in celebrating them whether we're Irish or not - heck, even whether we understand them or not.

So let's take a look at some of the ways we celebrate and what we get wrong - and right.

To start with the man himself, Saint Patrick wasn't Irish. Patrick grew up on the Britain side of things. This doesn't make him British however. At the time, the Isle of Britain was run, mostly, by the Romans and letters from Patrick that have survived see him not only writing them in Latin but signing them as Patricius. Whether he was Roman by birth is still a mystery to this day but his family is believed to have been part of the Roman aristocracy. At sixteen, he was kidnapped and ended up in slavery as a shepherd in Ireland before eventually escaping back to Britain. After receiving training however, he returned to Ireland as a missionary and the rest is - well, not history but certainly lore.

There's some speculation, in fact, that the Saint Patrick of myth was actually two men. Saint Patrick the escaped slave and a bishop sent by Pope Celestine in 431 named Palladius to support the 'Irish believing in Christ' that already lived there.

Did he, or they, at least drive out the snakes? Legend says that St. Patrick drove all the snakes out of Ireland and the island has been slither free since. The truth is - according to fossil records, Ireland never had any snakes to drive out. Ireland was under an ice sheet up until the last glacial period and after that it was safely surrounded by water. To save a little bit of the story, some historians believe 'driving out the snakes' was more of a metaphor for driving out the pagan religions of that time instead.

But we totally wear green to avoid getting pinched! Right? Actually - yes. Though the pinching is supposed to come from mischievous leprechauns, not your over-enthusiastic siblings. Apparently, leprechauns can't see you if you're wearing green and therefore, they can't pinch what they can't see. Given our decorations featuring the little people dressed all in green, you'd think that would make it hard for them to find each other but - not really. You see, traditionally - leprechauns wore red.

The pot of gold, sometimes at the end of the rainbow though - that's real(ish).

So is the leprechauns' strange blind spot with green why everything's green on St. Pat's Day? Not really. Green is associated with Ireland, the Emerald Isle, these days but for most of its history, Ireland, and St. Patrick's, color - was blue. Green recently came into prominence during Ireland's struggle with England. Green came to be associated with the Irish side of things and wearing green was a way to show which side of that you were on. The green beer/food though? That's entirely an American thing.

Speaking of green beer, the drinking is an American thing as well. Or, at least, the 'this is a traditional part of the holiday'. In Ireland, Saint Patrick's Day has long been a Catholic religious holiday - and it also happens to fall in the middle of Lent. Originally, the day had a lot more to do with going to church than to the local pub. Which isn't to say no one in Ireland celebrates the holiday with a drink. 'Drowning the shamrock' involved pouring whiskey over a shamrock in the bottom of a glass. The whiskey is then drunk and the soaked plant is thrown over your left shoulder to complete the tradition - and get you some extra luck.

Shamrocks being considered lucky is a part of the holiday. Called 'seamroy' by the ancient Celts, the shamrock was considered a sacred plant. St. Patrick was also supposed to have used the three leaves of the plant to explain the Trinity during his sermons. Like the clover, finding a four leaf shamrock is good luck and five leaves promises a future of vast wealth!

So, yes, a lot of our St. Pat's Day traditions aren't exactly... traditional. Don't discount them or their importance however. Many of the ways we celebrate St. Patrick's Day today are the direct results of Irish immigrants to America. The parades, the corned beef and cabbage, the celebration of Irish traditions - those were all created in the mid to late 1800s by Irish Americans that wanted to celebrate their heritage. So don't feel bad for indulging in a day of parties and eating your favorite food.

Just remember to cut a cross in your soda buns to 'let the devil out' before putting them in the oven to bake for the holiday.

#st. patricks day #saint patrick day #folklore #superstition #wearing the green #irish #irish history #st patrick #ireland

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sully-s · 3 months

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Listen, if I had the time I would just make Justice Leauge the mockumentary, lol.

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cemeterything · 5 months

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btw i think it's so awesome and fun when older people dye their white hair purple or pink or blue or whatever colour they fancy and 'overdress' in bright eye catching ostentatious outfits and have quirky interests and styles. you don't have to be young to have fun and be confident! you can still enjoy life when you're old! who cares what anyone else thinks, you've lived longer than they have and know better than to waste it being miserable just to fit in.

#🐉#theres this one older guy who shops at work who dyes his beard green and wears a bunch of pokemon merch #and really eccentric outfits. hes one of my favourite people and we always smile at each other when we bump into each other.#weirdo solidarity <3

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gentlehomo · 1 month

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funniest part of the insane buddie conversation was when buck said “why don’t you go talk to captain dad about sexy nuns and catholiscm and maybe you’ll calm down.” and then eddie DID

#911 abc #911 #buddie #also the bisexual green jacket buck was wearing #all i do is win

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nineraeix · 16 days

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stupid bastard man (affectionate).

#elias bouchard #the magnus archives #tma #tma fanart #jonah magnus #inside you there are two wolves #one knows that Elias would wear the most boring suits known to mankind #the other wishes to give him fancy colors and eye motifs #he suggested filing as a form of therapy how am I supposed to justify an emerald suit #he gets a smidge of green #as a treat

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ato-dato · 4 months

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I don’t think they’re ugly. But I think the number of times Jean has begged him to buy new clothes is astronomical.

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gio-cosmo · 10 days

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#“I like the color green—’’ green? like the jacket Jin wears? Jin Shirato from Persona 3? Strega member Jin? Persona reference! Jin mentione #LMFAOOO #Everything is a persona reference if you try hard enough #persona #persona 3 #persona 4 #persona 5 #p3 #p4 #p5 #persona 3 reload #persona 4 golden #persona 5 royal

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cupid-tune · 8 months

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For that one ask before, some of my Humanstuck headcanons! I tend to encompass a lot of different ones since people have such great ideas, so a lot of them are pretty interchangeable. A lot of my main hcs revolve around the characters I play, which I'll probably be making more posts involving them later! For now there's the Vantases.

One of the hcs I adore are the family ones, like where the Signless and Disciple meet each other after Kankri and Meulin are born. They have Nepeta and Karkat together! The Maryams also act like siblings to the Vantases and Leijons, but are more like childhood friends due to the found family aspect the Dolorosa and Signless have.

There's so much to discuss though! I love love love Humanstuck stuff

#homestuck #homestuck fanart #humanstuck #karkat vantas #kankri vantas #nepeta leijon #kanaya maryam #additional little things but Nepeta likes to wear fake fangs and Kanaya has green contacts in #Dedication to the aesthetic #Please don't tag anything as ship art here!

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raplinenthusiasts · 4 months

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Tae bear 🐻

for @kimtaegis

#he was wearing green and it reminded me of you <3 #kim taehyung #btsedit #bts #btsgif #dailybts #dailybangtan #userbangtan #annietrack #usersky #heyryen #usermaggie #userpat #usersolis #*mine #kth #1k

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hualianschild · 4 months

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the mxtx special <3

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trashcatsnark · 4 months

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feel like every laundry night at the tadfools camp just becomes a game of who's black shirt is this and the only thing anyone can confidently say is it's not Gale's

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wasyago · 8 months

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i imagine it's quite chilly in the black sea (for the lack of sun and color), so they're wearing slightly warmer clothes now uwu

+ thoughts

#i was meaning to only draw jay to try and figure out a design for her *once more*#but i was super happy with the first one i did so i drew the boys in slightly changed outfits instead #also yeah im VERY pleased with this outfit for jay. the colors look sooo good and exactly like i imagine them to look #the pants are not straight up green but they have this green ish hue to them that adds a lot i think #quite happy with chip's and gill's outfits too they're very sexy and cool hehe #gill in the turtleneck with short sleeves-- so good. and i gave him a haramaki!!!!!!!!!!! hell yeah the one piece fan in me is happy #and chip in the high waisted pants and these boots-- brooooo. slaying so hard. and he's wearing a proper shirt which is rare #also. there's a lot of typos in the explanations probably. um. yeah. not always looking at what i write #edit: forgot the actual tags whoops #jrwi riptide #jay ferin #jrwi chip #gillion tidestrider #my art #sketch

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but-sometimes-im-not · 30 days

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picnic, angel?

ft. a small tribute to my favorite gomens fics <3 ( @omgmussimm, @twilightcitysky, @mirjam-writes, @brightwanderer, @voluptatiscausa, @moonyinpisces, @blairamok)

#art #my art #good omens #gomens #crowley #good omens art #go2 #though it's really post-go3 #they've dealt with the bullshit and they've earned the right #to do whatever the fuck they want #post-s3 crowley decides he's a little tired of always wearing hell's colors and branches out #naturally he's drawn to leafy green :)#ineffable husbands #aziracrow #good omens fanart

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anna-scribbles · 1 month

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was told today by a child that i look like “adrien but if he was a girl” and i WILL be riding that high for the rest of my life

#it was so unexpected. also almost completely just because i am blonde i’m sure #but i was wearing green + my claws out converse so. warranted #have i told you guys about my claws out converse. my #they’re so sick. i love them #was also told by the children that every boy i draw looks like adrien. so. yeah #they were reading me for filth today #ml #anna rambles

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peachii-32172 · 1 month

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sisterdanielstits · 9 days

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phil has been in so much distress lately

#all while he's wearing green i just noticed #dan and phil #dip and pip #daniel howell #amazingphil #dnp #phil lester #dan howell #phan #dan and phil games #dnpg

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